"I showed my wife and she rolled her eyes and told me my mother would be giving it to me for Christmas."
I think the idea was that when Jonzy's wife delivered that line, she was insinuating that he was being childish by having spent money on a large useless hunk of plastic; rather than her rolling her eyes as if to say, "Oh shoot! Your mother already got you one of those and was going to give it to you for Christmas" as you seem to have understood it, canofhumdingers. (EDIT: I began this post before the OP's latest post, seems my assumption was also incorrect.)
You know, the nice thing about being a geek is that you like what you like, rather than feeling the need to like what others like you to like/expect you to like. I absolute hate watching televised sports, don't care about them one bit. When people ask me what team I like, and and reply with, "Actually, I don't watch sports", they often look at me as if I have just told them I ran over their grandmother with a lawn mower. Sometimes they actually seem offended. I am often given grief for my lack of interest in sports, I have been made fun of rather harshly in the past for not liking them. But I really don't care, because I really don't care for them and can't be bothered to waste my time conforming to what is "normal" (and not liking sports, I have been told, is extremely "abnormal", seemingly to the point that it merits the need for psychological help according to some). I have other friends who don't like sports who actually go out of their way to pretend to like them just to fit in. That saddens me.
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All that to say, "cool geek" doesn't matter. Cool is not what being a geek is about. Unfortunately, in the last several years it has become increasingly cool to be geeky, which seems to have resulted in bringing all the baggage of the cool crowd into the geeky crowd. Now suddenly some geeky things are cool, and other geeky things are not cool. Forget about cool or uncool. If you like littering your living space with dust collecting items that serve no purpose other than to remind you of the things you love and how cool they are in your mind regardless of their popularity in the minds of others, I'd say you have a much healthier state of mind than that of your average individual who is constantly getting hung up on worrying if something is cool or not before he decides to form an opinion of it.
Be proud of your geekiness! If the Neanderthalish sports fan can be overly proud of his obsession with watching groups of people knock balls around for hours at a time again and again, then surely you can be proud of your obsessions too!